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PATENT OFFICE.

JOSIAH W. ROGERS, OF SALEM, MASS.

, ASSIGNOR TO FREEMAN WINSLOW,

TRUSTEE FOR THE NAUMKEAG BUFFING MAOHINE ASSOOIATION.

BOOT AND SHOE SYOLE BUFFER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 227,839, dated May 18, 1880.

Application filed January 28, 1880. Patented in Canada October 8, 1877.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOSIAH W. ROGERS, 'of Salem, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Boot and Shoe Sole Buffers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and To use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in boot and shoe-sole buffers; and it consists in a novel construction and arrangement of parts thereof, by which I am enabled to reach and scour all parts of the soles of boots and shoes, and particularly the hollow of the shanks thereof, as well as the junction of the sole and heel, in a more effectual manner than can be accomplished by the buffers as hitherto constructed.

In my improved buffer an elastic pad is com- 2 5 posed of an elastic stuffing inclosed within the pad-covering, which latter is composed of two distinct partsviz., a circular piece of emerycloth or otheror similar abrasive material that is united, preferably by sewing it all around its o periphery, to an annular or ring-shaped piece of leather, skin, or suitable yielding material, by which arrangement a pocket is, as it were, formed for the reception of the elastic pad, at the same time as the inner edge of the annular- 5 ring part, above described, serves for the purpose of securing the pad-coverin g and its pad to the holder, the latter being, preferably, made of the construction as shown and described in the reissued Letters Patent granted to me Sepprovided with my improved elastic pad. Fig. 2 represents a central longitudinal section thereof. Fig. 3 represents a bottom-plan view of the abrasive pad-covering, and Fig. 4 represents a plan view of the upper annular ring that forms a part of the pad'covering.

Similar letters refer to similar parts whereever they occur on the different parts of the d ra wi 11 gs.

The pad-holder, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, is constructed substantially as shown and .described in my reissued Letters Patent, above referred to.

In said figures, a represents the male conic frustum, around which is located the female conic frustum I), as shown.

a. is the hollow shank of the frustum a, and a is a screw-thread thereon, around which is arranged the adjustable and screw-threaded nut c, as usual.

61 is a cushion of felt or similar yielding ma- 7o terial, located in the recessed bottom of the conic frustum a, as shown in Fig. 2.

. 6 represents the elastic pad, that projects in alateral direction all around and outside of the pad-holder, as and for the purpose set forth. Said elastic pad is inclosed within the improved pad-covering that is composed of two parts-via, a circular bottom piecc,f, made of emery-cloth or other suitable abrasive material, that is united all around its periphery to the second piece, g, that is made of an annular form, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4, and it serves to attach the pad and covering to the holder, for which purpose the inner edge of said annular piece 9 is inserted between the conic frusta a and b, as shown in Fig. 2, after which the nut c is turned down on'its screw-shank a a,

so as to confine the annular ring 9 between the said frusta a and b, as represented.

I am aware of the patent granted to F. Winslow for boot and shoe buffers, dated May 1, 1877, No. 190,174; and I wish to state that I do not claim a pad as therein shown and described, but

What I desire to secure by Letters Patent, 5 and claim, is-

1. A circular piece of emery-cloth, f, or suitable abrasive material, an annular piece, g,

within it the holder a, substantially as de- IO scribed.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own invention I have affixed my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JOSIAH W. ROGERS.

and an elastic filling, e to form a pad with a flexible periphery, combined and arranged with the conic frusta a b of the pad-holder as described.

2. A pocket-pad consisting of the lower circular abrasive piece,f, and the upper circular smooth piece, g, united at their outer edges and inclosing a pad, and the upper smooth piece having an annular space for receiving Witnesses S. W. WINSLOW, FRED. A. ROGERS. 

